The reigning World Player of the Year has suffered from knee and thigh injuries since the end of the domestic season
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The Portuguese broadcaster, RTP1, enjoyed a 47 per cent increase on the average audience for a Portugal group match at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa
It went from bad to worse for Cameroon when midfielder Alex Song was given a red card for elbowing Mario Mandzukic in the back in an off-the-ball incident
Louis Van Gaal named an unchanged starting line-up for the Dutch, meaning Lazio target Stefan De Vrij took his place in the side once more. Arjen Robben and Robin Van Persie looked to build upon excellent individual displays against Spain last Friday
The two matches are slated for Friday, 20th and Sunday, 22nd of this month at the FIFA Goal Project Package B of the Abuja National Stadium
The minister’s plea, his Special Assistant on Media, Patrick Omorodion said on Wednesday, is coming on the heels of hisses and sighs from disappointed Nigerian fans following the barren draw posted by the Eagles against Iran in their opening game last Monday
Maigari who made a morale boosting visit to the Super Eagles Campinas camp on Wednesday afternoon to assure the team that the federation is solidly behind them and that he was sure that the team will make it to the next round of the championship
His words: “It will be a delight to see how Edin Dzeko and I slug it out in the game and hopefully they will play an open game and we will also which will make the game very interesting
Mikel has already seen his first team chances limited by the January arrival of Nemanja Matic and with plans afoot to bring in Real Madrid’s Sami Khedira Chelsea are ready to sell the long term Blues servant
The former Chairman of the Nigeria Referees Association said that there were lots of fouls committed in the match.
He said: “The officiating could have been better; there were lots of fouls that offenders deserved to be given yellow cards but none was issued
“One will have no other choice than to keep transiting with teams or stay rooted to a place with considerable irrelevance,” said Duro Ikhazuagbe, a journalist with Nigeria’s ThisDay newspapers in Lagos
Brazilian Immigration officials at the Sao Paulo International Airport had on Monday seized Nigerian food items carried by members of the NFSC to Brazil for the 2014 World Cup
Super Eagles’ midfielder, John Obi Mikel, has bemoaned Iran’s defensive style in their scoreless draw on Monday at the ongoing…
The African champions huffed and puffed throughout but failed to get the needed goal to claim the three points, despite dominating for large periods
NFF spokesman, Ademola Olajire, dismissed the report, which suggested that the Senate President, Senator David Mark, blamed the NFF leadership for holding onto the players’ money
Stephen Keshi’s men began their campaign with a disappointing 0-0 stalemate against Iran on Monday, while Bosnia-Herzegovina opened up with a 2-1 defeat to Group F favourites Argentina 24 hours earlier
“He’s been doing well at his club, at Stoke City, and I think he should be given another chance to play for his country,” Keshi stated after Nigeria drew goalless with their Iranian counterparts on Monday
Brazilians were at the stadium on Monday shouting N-i-g-e-r-i-a, N-i-g-e-r-i-a from the beginning to the end of the game against Iran, but the eagles failed to score
It added that the man, identified only by the surname Zhou, died of a stroke while watching the match between Uruguay and Costa Rica
Many people in the area where the incident happened believed that the man wielding the machete wanted to cut off the head of his victim, but only succeeded in inflicting injury on him